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would the scientific method have been know of and understood by the educated of China and Japan 300 years ago?	24
Someone (possible a TV documentary) once told me that the Minoans were likely less patriarchal than later Greeks because soomd of their surviving art implies they were ruled partially by priestesses of some kind. Is that a reasonable claim?	24
When people saw Shakespeare's Roman plays at the globe would they have understood that the English dialog was intended as a translation rather than how Romans actually spoke?	24
wikipedia says the saxons probably introduced the open field system to Britain. how did the Celts divide up land?	23
In the USSR, 30 years ago, was possible to become wealthy by being a professional sportsman/athlete (like by being a football player or something like that), like it was in the west by that point?	23
I was reading a Time travel story that had a description of a particularly brutal hittite battle tactic, it said they'd have cauldrons of boiling cooking oil on the city wall, when people attacked they'd pour it out then throw a torch down, sort of poor man's napalm. did they really do that?	23
I was just listening to the NPR politics podcast in which they said presidents don't give a state of the union their first year in office. Did that apply to Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson or Calvin Coolidge (IE presidents that inherited the job mid term)?	23
which had a more literate population, AD444 Rome or AD1444 Florence?	23
The Sign of the Four (Holmes book) there's a bit where some Sikhs bring an Englishman into a plot to steal treasure, their logic for trusting him is that he's a Christian & Christians can be relied upon to keep their oaths where common Hindus can't. Why did Conan Doyle think Sikhs distrust Hindus?	23
If asked in 1814 would a Japanese aristocrat have said the Chinese were more civilised (or less barbaric?) than the Dutch?	23

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